Across
- 2. A glass layer used to decorate your clay. Changes color in the kiln.
- 4. Raises your clay up in a kiln to keep it from sticking to the bottom of the kiln.
- 6. The tool with a half circle used for smoothing the surface of your clay.
- 11. A type of clay that is used in architecture, pottery and sculpture. Brownish red. High porosity.
- 12. The tool with a metal oval shape used for smoothing your surface of your clay.
- 13. The 2nd firing after glaze has been added.
- 15. The 1st Firing that makes your clay ready for glaze
- 18. A type of large oven used for making clay objects hard after they have been shaped
- 20. Clay that is capable of being molded or formed (soft, malleable)
- 22. Clay is constructed but unfired.
- 23. Glaze has this finish.
- 25. A small square used to show the difference between a glaze color before and after the kiln.
- 27. A type of movement in a sculpture that is stationary, looks fixed, doesn’t appear to be moving.
- 28. Clay has a water moisture content at or near 0%.
- 29. The type of shape that you make up the name - blob, squished circle, etc.
- 31. Used to check your clay for air bubbles.
- 32. Occupies space.
- 34. A coil placed along attached slabs to make them stronger.
- 36. How the pieces of your sculpture/ceramic piece are arranged.
- 37. The number of days clay needs to dry out to get from the leatherhard stage to the greenware stage.
- 38. The act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.
- 40. Used to create the look and feel of action and to guide the viewer’s eyes throughout the work of art.
- 41. the type of wedging characterized by spirals on the upper right and left hand corners that resemble horns.
- 43. Any flat surface in 3-dimensional art. A planar sculpture uses these.
Down
- 1. A sculpture that projects from a base.
- 3. The type of shape that has a name - circle, triangle, rectangle, etc.
- 5. A way of combining elements to stress the differences between the two (for example, straight vs. curved.
- 7. The original slab that you rolled when you started your clay project.
- 8. A type of movement in a sculpture that is energetic, looks capable of change or action.
- 9. What the eye is drawn towards first on a work of art.
- 10. Smoothing the surface of your clay to get rid of textures
- 14. The guideline that states that compositions are more interesting if the focal point is on this intersection.
- 16. Where the viewer's eyes go throughout the sculpture.
- 17. Makes sure your clay is the same thickness all the way through.
- 19. The area around and in between areas of occupied space.
- 21. Where your balsa wood meets - think about it like a highway, where they cross.
- 24. The overall process we’ll use to create your first project.
- 26. The overall neatness.
- 30. Clay that has been fired in the first firing.
- 31. Kneading your clay to get all of your air bubbles out. Prevents your clay from blowing up in the kiln.
- 33. Scratching hatch marks (x’s) into a piece of clay to help attach pieces together.
- 35. Acrylic paint has this finish.
- 39. What clay turns into after the first glaze firing.
- 42. A mixture of clay and water that is put onto the clay after scoring and before attaching.